Thursday, 23 July 2009

Your back is pretty messed up down there, she said. It's completely arthritic, each of your lumbar vertebrae are degenerative and your lower disk is herniated. On both sides, pinching the sciatic nerve.

I said, whoa..... there's gotta be some good news, there, Doc.

She said, the good news is if you were fifty pounds heavier, you wouldn't be able to walk.

I said, I hate to burst your bubble there, Doc, but that sounds like bad news.

She said, I haven't gotten to the bad news yet. The bad news is, it's only going to get worse.

So that was a lot of info to take in in thirty seconds.

I asked if there isn't anything they can do.

She said, there is a shot that would help.

I asked, like cortisone or ibuprofen?

No, she said, uhhh....22 calibre.

Well, she was thinking it. Her eyes said, why don't you save us all a lot of trouble over the next thirty years and just get under that next bus.

Scene Of The Crime...Oh well, could be worse. Could be a lot worse.

She said, surgery is an option, if you'd be interested. I nodded.

I'll refer you to an orthopaedic surgeon, but honestly, don't hold your breathe. He'll likely take one look at this say no need to even see this guy.

Either the owner of the Cardinal Funeral Home, directly across the street from the Toronto Western Hospital (where I just had a 2 a.m. MRI - and was born, not again, but many years ago) saw a business opportunity...

....or the Toronto Western Hospital has too many customers going out the back door.

P.S. At 2 am in the Emergency Room, you see a lot of really weird cats shuffling around in there.

The ER has armed guards, and they had to buzz me in to the MRI section and even then, I had to wait in an empty room til they came and got me. Felt like I was in scene from Blade Runner.

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